Statistical Olympicsin CroatiaThe Croatian Bureau of Statistics informs that until 25 January 2018 there are 517 teams from 108 high schools applied for the Statistical Olympicsin Croatia with a total of 1429 registered high school students. However, this is not the only good news – at the EU level Croatia is convincingly the best on the number of registered teams per 100,000 inhabitants and has 10 times more than EU-average admissions (only Spain has a larger number of registered teams than Croatia). The first round of the national stage of the competition (exam) will be held in the next 2 weeks (27.01.2018.)

European Statistics Day, October 20, 2017 has been celebrated in Croatia and Europe wide:

On October 20, 2017, Croatian Statistical Association helps promoting the STATISTICAL OLYMPICS in Croatia, the EU project led by the Croatian Bureau of Statistics. Members of the CSA welcome STATISTICAL OLYMPICS project promotion in Zagreb, Osijek, Split, Rijeka, Varaždin. Photos.

YSM22-2017: The 22nd Young Statisticians Meeting, 13 – 15 October 2017 in Zagreb, Croatia, was successfully held at the University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, School of Public Health „Andrija Stampar“, who co-organized this event together with CSA and Croatian Biometeric Society. Photo.

The Letter supporting Andreas Georgiou, October 2017FENStatS in occasion of the ESD wishes also to underline the importance of the independence of Official Statistics, expressing deep concern over the legal proceedings against Andreas Georgiou, the former president of the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), and other senior ELSTAT officials. A letter of concern signed by the Presidents of 23 European Statistical Societies has been sent to the Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Alexis Tsipras.

European Statistics Day, Lisbon, Portugal, 20 October 2017For the second time in history, on 20 October 2017, the European Statistics Day is celebrated in Lisbon. The celebration of the European Statistics Day aims at raising awareness among European citizens as regards the importance and value of official statistics for society. Following up on the 2015 World Statistics Day and 2016 First European Statistics Day, the event will continue to focus on the global theme “The value of official statistics as a public good.”

The Royal Statistical Society (RSS), with both the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the American Statistical Association (ASA), is marking World Statistics Day on the 20th of October2015 with a statement urging that “global development must no longer be hampered by a lack of the most basic data about the social and economic circumstances in which people live”. Almost 50 organisations worldwide, and Croatian Statistical Association, too, have signed up to the statement calling for ‘a true data revolution’ to measure progress toward the new UN Sustainable Development goals.Now we have a page with the statement which you can link to: World_Statistics_Day_Statement